The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-05-15
FLASHING THE LORD.
Effects of 0'Brien's Arraign-
ment Of LansdOwne,
rHR HOSTILITY IN CANADA
Halls in Toronto and Kingston Dec
MED Rim-The Mysterious Fol-
lower-GeneraI Notes.
o. rien.

srrjVtd IN this city To-Day at o cloch
~, the steamer Montreal. Mr.. O'Brien
ioft the vessel at 10 o'clock and thought
~ oscane in cab unobserved, but as he
~ ashore Pat" Ryan, police
Sc 'op who speaks with rich Munster
t hrngne rushed forward and grasped
S;US wsrnnly by the hand. May the
h 10. save you, sir" he exclaimed
~ wonId sooner nave your little finger
than the body and bones of Lands
Jowne." The threats from Toronto
loom up bigger and bigger, but the
oJitor of United ireland apd the people
here who are best qualt6ed to Judge,
sssert that they are only fAreats. The
most significant fact that has yet trans
niTed is the offer of Quebec men of a
st8Iwart body guard, armed, to escort
Mr.. O'Brien to Toronto. Mr.. O'Brien,
Who is anxious to do nothing that can
he construed into violent action, re-
fused the offer.
Perhaps the exact situation can be
ssCertained from . 'Brien himself, who
snake to an Associated Press reporter
t5is afternoon as follows: up to the
prasent the result has more than an
swered my most sanguine expectations.
From end to end OF this Province
of Quebec, although, of course.
have encountered a good
manv opponents, l have not
experienced the slightest mark of DIS
Courtesy-not TO say violence. | have
met some who doubted the advisability
Of our visit, but have not met single
one who, having heard US, was not con.
WINGED we had ample stand, the most
terrible justification for the course We
have taken. l have been simply
amazed at the extent TO which
PREJUDICE AROUSED AGAINST Us
has been dissipated in the course of
a brief intercourse With the people,
fact, OF course, due, not to ourselves,
but to the absolutely unanswerable
suit IS 1 think, thorough secured,
that the Canadian people recognize
that a case has been made which
must be answered. Not single one of
Lord LsnsdoW ae's champions in the
press has attempted 70 tackle the facts
OF the controversy, although Lord
I.ansdoWne, many weeks ago,
through his aid-de-camp. sup
piled them with his version of
the transaction. His friends arereduced
to two pleas, neither of which will bear
the light of robust public criticism for q
moment. The first, is that as Gov
ernor- General, Lord Landsdowne is sub
llmated
ABOVE ALL CRITICISM
IRON the people whom he rules. and
who pay him. This is a doctrine so
antipathetic of British constitutional
law, that 1 can scarcely imagine how
any person instructed IN the rudiments
Of English constitutional history can for
moment PROFOUND it. The land owners
other plea is a still more washy one,
namely, that his mouth is closed for
his defense. His own action, and that
Of his agent. utterly refute it. He was
himself the first to fly to newspaper con.
trOversy on the subject, before had an
opportunity, and the first to make an
erpqrte and disingenous statement of
his side of the case before had any
opportunity Of answering him.
If you are refused permission to ap-
pear in Toronto or Ottawa, what then ?"
We'll, [ shall certainly exercise my
legal right and visit and speak at those
Places"
Can they prevent your
There is nothing in the law of
N--aAo " -pIChCut ll6 1lOA C6l1 lug
out my intentions, and while / should
most deeply regret our visit to be the
OCCASION of the smallest interruption of
domestic tranquility, in Canada, yet l
feel that
IT Is MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
Tor nearly 500 cruelty oppressed Irish
tenants to go right ahead and arouse
honest public opinion against these
atrocities. 1 should be sorry to an
ticipste that these rumors have any
serious significance"
But ali halls in Toronto and Kings
Ton having been denied YOU, does the
law permit OF open air speaking?
- am Informed we are perfectly free
70 speak IN open air. If any disturbance
should now take place, the guilt of il
would be on the shoulders OF the Lon. |
9on Tines, whose indictments 10 VIC |
fence against Us are OF the most brutal |
and urmistaSaable character. It's |
comments on our Canadian visits are of |
me same character as the indictments |
OF Lord Randolph Churchill, which gen |
Grated the Belfast riots"
tomorrow 0'Brien will deliver a |
speech before the local branch OF the |
5~-tVh"i league, and will start on |
TTio"Gay Ior Toronto and speak there on |
tuesday. He will start the following |
nay Tor Ottawa, where he will speak on |
thursday and according 10 the present |
arrangements in Kingston on Saturday |
IoRoNTo, May lion leaving Quesec
aL evening, an exciting scene oc-
CURED. From the moment the party |
Et}oQt from the Grand Central DEPOT, |
@e" o. 4, until this moment, suspi |
tto0S Individual was IN sight all the
s,,ne. de took the same boat. the /
bahe ualn, and stayed at the same |
note, and when the visit to the country |
Is %Ss decided upon, he hired coupe all |
aaoue, ana got as near as possible to the /
Sa n where the o Brien party was.
s ~ eae vessel steamed out from Rich
otso Fer. the mysterious and rbiqu,t-
CnS man Vas again discovered. ana the |
thV"oS asho.e created q tumult by /
6ttehiGS TO throw him of the boat. |
sr otien knew nothing of this. The
9uSFY crowd called the officers of the